MarkTVS

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    Actually ok for us, I miss the actually going to the auctions though and getting to socialise slightly, it meant an afternoon out of the workshop but in the same respect it’s much easier for me to buy 5 or 6 through the course of the week from whatever site and then just send the truck out one day a week for collections. 
     

    Had my first proper lemon though a nice ML with a blatantly knocking bottom end but thankfully managed to get a refund fairly easily.

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    34 minutes ago, Dave2302 said:

    Powershits are OK when you know exactly how to fix 'em, 9 times outta 10 it costs me less than a fiver in parts ;)

    Top secret ......................

    Shhhhhhhhh ......................

    I don't mind tellin' ya'all now since I don't have the Transmission firm any more ...................

    New "Brushes" in the Servo Motors ......................

    We used to get some right good earners outta them back in their hey day ;)

    Does that mean I can buy then and deliver them upto you to get fixed :lol:

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    1 hour ago, NacMan said:

    VXRs, head gaskets, gearboxes, seats, modified, exhaust, turbo, everything goes on these lol

    I’m the opposite, my workshop guys can have anything fixed on these within a few hours! 
     

    For me it is anything with the powershit gearbox from Ford or the majority of semi autos.

    As a general rule we try to avoid french cars and petrol 4 cylinder BMW’s.

    Subaru Impreza 2.5 turbos are also on the banned list. I love them to drive but the engines are chocolate!

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    44 minutes ago, Lorris007 said:

    Mhm interesting, I really do not have an opinion about that, maybe I am on that side as yours. For example I have a big family, 3 kids ... two boys and one girl ( hah I think it is a lot )and all the things as car seats I have bought on Baby jogger Strollers. It is a nice site which has a lot of good products and to be honest I was very well surprised about the quality and prices. I have recommended it to all my friends and they also was very satisfied.

    Do they sell dummies? Last I heard AD has thrown his out of his pram so he may be on the hunt for another one?

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    We had this last year with a Kia Sorento, water in fuel light on, new fuel filter and it cured it for a couple of days then light back on. We then dropped the tank and found it to be bright green that looked like shreks piss. Drained and cleaned the tank and all good. Sainsbury’s even paid the bill for the customer too!  Thankfully our workshop heater runs on waste oil / diesel so it worked in that and kept us warm for a while:D

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    16 minutes ago, Scooby who said:

    Every car I buy seems to be more or less running on air, no matter where I buy.

    Every car we prep gets at least 50 quid of fuel to cover our testing, drying after valet (its that time of year again) test driving and run to MOT centre. Hopefully its near enough half when customer drives away. I think anything less is down right mean looking.

    When we point out to some its got a half tank of fuel its met with.......... 'what about the other half''?!

    Cant win!

    Thought about buying a dehumidifier? Might work out more cost effective for you.

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    Quick question here guys, 

    One of my staff whom I do trust, his partner has been in contact with someone who tested positive, both of them got tested yesterday and neither are showing symptoms, now his partner got a phone call telling her and apparently him aswell to isolate for 14 days. 
     

    Now as far as I can read online he should not be asked to self isolate unless his partner has symptoms which she doesn’t. So if he’s off it leaves the workshop a staff member short and as a result I’ll have to cancel my planned holiday which I’m raging about as I can’t have 2 people off at the one time. 

    Should he have to provide me with any proof of being told to self isolate? Like anything in writing? And does it go as holidays or sick leave?

    thanks 

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    18 hours ago, Dave2302 said:

    I'll tell ya wot boils my piss is when a customer brings a car in for work, often complex engine or running gear issues that need a lot of road testing, and the bastard light is on .................

    I take 'em straight up our filling station, stick £50 in the fucker and add that onto my repair invoice with a photo copy of the receipt from petrol station ;)

    I had this last week Dave, a customer with a Bmw x35D brought it in for a juddering on gear change when full throttle from standstill and lack of boost from first turbo, Started with a 26 mile range after a few attempts to replicate the fault i was down to a zero range. It infuriates me, it’s not the having to put fuel in it’s the time it takes to do so, ten minute drive then ten minutes drive back and ten minutes to wait in the que as it’s an m&s garage so always people doing their weekly shop. I feel like adding .5 hours labour to their bill for my inconvenience.

    x5 turned out to be a poor remap issue, reflashed it to original and it’s all good.

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    4 hours ago, CRW said:

    Alright mate, I dont have anything to pick up at the moment, but how far south would you come or do you come?  I look at stuff up there, but from Cornwall its borderline ridiculous!  If I knew somebody reliable who could get stuff to the Midlands, even Bristol it might be different.

    We will do anywhere mate, been as far down as village called shitterton before :lol: Will always aim to have it down to you within a week.

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    27 minutes ago, metcars said:

    Funny you should say that! Friend of mine picked up a car from Scotland a week or so ago. Trained up and drove it back in a day. Apparently the car was cheap and so was the train ticket. I’m guessing driving those distances at 60mph will be a ball ache?

    It’s kind of 6 and half a dozen our bigger truck takes 5\6 cars so if it’s a full load it’s cheaper but that run in the big truck is 2 days due to driver hours and being limited to 56mph, but if it’s just one then we have a single car beavertail which is tacho exempt as it’s under 3.5ton so it can do the same run within 24 hours and isn’t speed restricted. Hopefully going to add a bigger variety of trucks to the fleet as we build our transport side, it’s a fairly new venture for us which we just started to keep our own costs down.

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